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System Properties Comparison GeoSpock vs. Sphinx vs. Splice Machine vs. TerarkDB vs. Yanza

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NameGeoSpock  Xexclude from comparisonSphinx  Xexclude from comparisonSplice Machine  Xexclude from comparisonTerarkDB  Xexclude from comparisonYanza  Xexclude from comparison
GeoSpock seems to be discontinued. Therefore it will be excluded from the DB-Engines ranking.Yanza seems to be discontinued. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionSpatial and temporal data processing engine for extreme data scaleOpen source search engine for searching in data from different sources, e.g. relational databasesOpen-Source SQL RDBMS for Operational and Analytical use cases with native Machine Learning, powered by Hadoop and SparkA key-value store forked from RocksDB with advanced compression algorithms. It can be used standalone or as a storage engine for MySQL and MongoDBTime Series DBMS for IoT Applications
Primary database modelRelational DBMSSearch engineRelational DBMSKey-value storeTime Series DBMS
Secondary database modelsTime Series DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score5.95
Rank#55  Overall
#5  Search engines
Score0.54
Rank#252  Overall
#115  Relational DBMS
Score0.08
Rank#367  Overall
#56  Key-value stores
Websitegeospock.comsphinxsearch.comsplicemachine.comgithub.com/­bytedance/­terarkdbyanza.com
Technical documentationsphinxsearch.com/­docssplicemachine.com/­how-it-worksbytedance.larkoffice.com/­docs/­doccnZmYFqHBm06BbvYgjsHHcKc
DeveloperGeoSpockSphinx Technologies Inc.Splice MachineByteDance, originally TerarkYanza
Initial release2001201420162015
Current release2.0, September 20193.5.1, February 20233.1, March 2021
License infoCommercial or Open SourcecommercialOpen Source infoGPL version 2, commercial licence availableOpen Source infoAGPL 3.0, commercial license availablecommercial inforestricted open source version availablecommercial infofree version available
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud serviceyesnononono infobut mainly used as a service provided by Yanza
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Implementation languageJava, JavascriptC++JavaC++
Server operating systemshostedFreeBSD
Linux
NetBSD
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Linux
OS X
Solaris
Windows
Windows
Data schemeyesyesyesschema-freeschema-free
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesnoyesnono
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.nonono
Secondary indexestemporal, categoricalyes infofull-text index on all search fieldsyesnono
SQL infoSupport of SQLANSI SQL for query only (using Presto)SQL-like query language (SphinxQL)yesnono
APIs and other access methodsJDBCProprietary protocolJDBC
Native Spark Datasource
ODBC
C++ API
Java API
HTTP API
Supported programming languagesC++ infounofficial client library
Java
Perl infounofficial client library
PHP
Python
Ruby infounofficial client library
C#
C++
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
R
Scala
C++
Java
any language that supports HTTP calls
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresnonoyes infoJavanono
Triggersnonoyesnoyes infoTimer and event based
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesAutomatic shardingSharding infoPartitioning is done manually, search queries against distributed index is supportedShared Nothhing Auto-Sharding, Columnar Partitioningnonenone
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesnoneMulti-source replication
Source-replica replication
nonenone
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnonoYes, via Full Spark Integrationnono
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integritynonoyesnono
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of datanonoACIDnono
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayesyesyes, multi-version concurrency control (MVCC)yesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyes infoThe original contents of fields are not stored in the Sphinx index.yesyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.noyesyes
User concepts infoAccess controlAccess rights for users can be defined per tablenoAccess rights for users, groups and roles according to SQL-standardnono

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